Firms' search for external knowledge is one aspect of knowledge integration in the innovation process. The literature … has investigated innovation and the breadth of search in different information channels. We introduce the concept of … search balance reflecting the heterogeneity of a firm's knowledge base. Results from German Community Innovation Survey data …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …

in industries where technological and organizational innovation is important. Indeed a large literature has grown up on … ways they evolve over time. Another domain concerns the nature of competition in such industries, wherein innovation and … briefly flag some fundamental aspects of economic growth and development as an innovation-driven evolutionary process. …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

Debates about the future of work frequently reference past instances of transformative innovation to preface analysis … overview of the current debates around the potential effects of impending labor-replacing innovation. We then summarize …

This paper investigates the impact of eco-innovation on firms' growth processes, with a special focus on gazelles, i … effects of generic innovation on firms' growth, and this is particularly true for gazelles, which actually appear to run …